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bureaucratize

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bu⋅reauc⋅ra⋅tize

  [byoo-rok-ruh-tahyz]
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–verb (used with object), -tized, -tiz⋅ing.
1. to divide an administrative agency or office into bureaus.
2. to increase the number of government or business bureaus.
3. to cause to become bureaucratic or to resemble a bureaucracy: to bureaucratize a city's social services.
Also, especially British, bu⋅reauc⋅ra⋅tise.

Origin:
1890–95; < F bureaucratiser. See bureaucrat, -ize

Related forms:
bu⋅reauc⋅ra⋅ti⋅za⋅tion, noun
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bu·reauc·ra·tize   (byŏŏ-rŏk'rə-tīz')   
tr.v.   bu·reauc·ra·tized, bu·reauc·ra·tiz·ing, bu·reauc·ra·tiz·es
To make into a bureaucracy or bring under bureaucratic control: "The failure of communication is built—or . . . bureaucratized—into the legal system" (Anatole Broyard).
bu·reauc'ra·ti·za'tion (-tĭ-zā'shən) n.
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